Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Two Volumes)
New York and Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. First Holiday Edition. Two volumes. Octavo. 522 pp. Original dark olive-brown cloth with decorative gilt feather design to front panels and spines. Top edges gilt. Internally clean; illustrated with 30 photogravure plates (including frontispieces) from photographs. Tissue guards intact.
Issued during the height of the American Arts and Crafts movement, this edition of Thoreau's tome provided readers with the first visual context of the Walden landscape through high-quality photogravures. The gilt "feather" binding remains one of the most iconic trade bindings of the era. K4. Near Fine. Item #910
Price: $950.00